Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazis said the offer was "a very nice gesture" befitting Dutch and Belgian neutrality but that it has scant possibility of success...
Although Finns have always assumed the tortoise's role in the tortoise vs. hare battles of Olympic competition, they have enjoyed exceptional success in the international games, having won 69 gold medals since 1906, in addition to 57 silver and 58 bronze awards. Of the gold laurels, 37 were gained in track and field events, 21 in wrestling, and the remainder in winter sports...
...Finns readily agree that their average athlete is neither mentally nor physically equipped for sprint or team sports. However, a good deal of soccer is played with moderate success, basketball has been introduced by touring American teams, and a Finnish variation of baseball is played largely in the country districts by 40,000 players in 600 clubs. But Finns regard track as their national sport even more fanatically than do Americans baseball or Englishmen cricket...
Since that first dramatic case, hundreds of lung amputations have been performed throughout the world, with great success. "In suitable cases," continued Dr. Graham, "where the cancer is not too far advanced, the operation can be done with a mortality of only ten percent. When the cancer is advanced, however, the mortality jumps to 40 or 50%. A very discouraging feature is that about 80% of those patients who come for operation are too far advanced to have a chance...
...best operative success, all Dr. Holman's patients are fed six haliver oil capsules, four oranges, two lemons, and "some form of vitamin B" every day for at least five days before operation. In emergency operations vitamins C and B are injected just before and just after operation. "On the third day following operation, the vitamin concentrates are resumed by mouth and continued throughout the full convalescent period...